Sueur Quotes & Sayings

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. — Meridel Le Sueur

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. — Anonymous

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people. — Meridel Le Sueur

I met them in Minneapolis when the Society hosted a brunch for this year's winners and gave us these oversized checks they had us pose with. The picture made the front page of the Le Sueur News Herald.
It was really embarrassing because I'm smiling with my eyes shut.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Russ made a huge copy of the photo, replacing the background with a highway scene and the check I was holding with a sign that said NEED RIDE TO STAR TREK CONVENTION. — Brian Malloy

The people are a story that never ends,
A river that winds and falls and gleams erect in many dawns;
Lost in deep gulleys, it turns to dust, rushes in the spring freshet,
Emerges to the sea. The people are a story that is a long incessant
Coming alive from the earth in better wheat, Percherons,
Babies, and engines, persistent and inevitable.
The people always know that some of the grain will be good,
Some of the crop will be saved, some will return and
Bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year
Some survive to outfox the frost. — Meridel Le Sueur

They never die, who have the future in them. — Meridel Le Sueur

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life. — Meridel Le Sueur

I am luminous with age. — Meridel Le Sueur

He had had a beautiful and eager young wife and another man had taken her away from him and had fathered his child, and all he had done was to walk away, leaving her in possession of everything he owned, and crawl into a hole in the slums and lie there like a wounded animal and let his intellect bleed away into pious drivel and his strength bleed away into weakness. And he had been good. But his goodness had told me nothing except that I could not live by it. My new father, however, had not been good. He had cuckolded a friend, betrayed a wife, taken a bride, driven a man, though unwittingly, to death. But he had done good. — Robert Penn Warren

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur. — Meridel Le Sueur

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man. — Meridel Le Sueur

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths. — Meridel Le Sueur

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. — Meridel Le Sueur

Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within. — Meridel Le Sueur

Linear thinking is patriarchal. — Meridel Le Sueur

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life. — Meridel Le Sueur

If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights — Aleida Guevara

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh. — Meridel Le Sueur

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door. — Meridel Le Sueur

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave. — Meridel Le Sueur

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye. — Meridel Le Sueur

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. — Meridel Le Sueur

I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it. — Brittany Howard

God speaks in the silence of the heart
Listening is the beginning of prayer. — Justin Bieber

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times. — Marisha Pessl

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it? — Meridel Le Sueur

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people. — Meridel Le Sueur

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. — Meridel Le Sueur

My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself. — Joyce Dingwell

I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls! — Lori Lesko

sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead. — Simon R. Green

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, Hey, at least I'm not pregnant — Daniel Tosh

Growth is not concerned with itself. — Meridel Le Sueur

I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago. — Bernard Hopkins

What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone ... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed. — Meridel Le Sueur

Live life to the fullest
Love life
Follow your dreams — Nicole Myers

Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did. — Betty Friedan